We've only been the 2nd or the 3rd week of December, and we like the 2nd better for crowd level. The closer to Christmas the more crowded it is. Now, the DVC owners meetings are usually the first week in December, or maybe whatever that first week after Thanksgiving. We would like to go to one of those, but the second week of December is the first week I can take off.
If the taping of the Christmas parade is important to you, check when that is. Also, there are Pop Warner teams, or cheerleaders at the resorts(not DVC)and parks, and I think that's the first week in December.
Bobbi